Hiding distracting items in Safari on iPhone

1

So I choose an item to hide while reading an article on the phone. Then I want to scroll down to find and hide the next item. But as soon as I try, touching the screen automatically selects something to hide.

On the Mac of course, I can scroll with the mouse. How do I solve this issue?

2

Click Done (in blue) on the bottom of the screen, once you have completed hiding distracting items before reading the contents on the screen.

3

Sure, clicking done hides that item, but the problem is to scroll past items you don’t want to hide. As soon as the screen is touched for any reason, the app tries to hide what was touched.

4

Based on my understanding you have to repeat the process on a „per screen“ basis.

  • activate function to hide items
  • select item you wish to hide-
  • exit that mode by pressing the „finish“ button above the keyboard-
  • scroll to the next section of the page where you’d want to hide something and repeat the above process-

Hiding things on the webpage seems to be cumulative, so you don’t lose previous selections to hide.

Does this help?

5

I seem to have observed that. Not terribly convenient on the iPhone. Works well on the Mac when a mouse can scroll without selecting.